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METHOD OF ATTAOHING SHANK BUTTONS TO BOOTS AND SHOES. I

No. 341,821.. Patented May 11, 1886.

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ROSEIVELL THOMPSON, OF BRIDGEPOR'F, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE v MORLEY BUTTON SEWVING MACHINE COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASS.

METHOD OF ATTACHING SHANK-BUTTONS T BOOTS AND SHOES.

SFECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 3%L821, dated May 11, 1886.

Application filed January 5, 1886.

To aZZ whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, RosEwELL THOMPSON, of the city of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have in 5 vented a new and Improved Method of Attaching Shank-Buttons to Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the stitch which secures the button to the fabric, and

the manner of making the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

The object of my invention is to secure a number of shank-buttons to boots and shoes 1 in such a manner as to insure strength, durability, and-neatness. This I accomplish by manipulating and doubling a thread in such a manner as to put four threads through the eye of each button, leaving three threads to be seen on the under side of the fabric opposite the button-eye, and only one "thread between the stitches, as will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 2, 3, 4., 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 show the various and relative positions of the button,thread, and loops during the process of forming the stitch which secures the button to the fabric. Fig. 10 represents a perspective view of a strip of leather to which a number of buttons are attached and bent :-shaped, in order to clearly show the appearance of my improved stitch upon both sides of the material.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the material to which thebutton is to be secured. B is the button, and C is the thread. a is the primary loop, and bis the secondary or looking loop.

In making my stitch I first seize the thread 0 G, which is under the fabric, and draw it through asmall hole in the material, continuing to draw it in a perpendicular direction through-the eye of the button until the loop it thus formed is of sufficient length to allow 5 it to be bent over the but-ton'eye, as shown in' Fig. 2, and forced again through a smallhole in the material outside of the buttoneye, bent again under the fabric and again drawn through the first hole made in the material Serial No. 187,650. (No model.)

and through the button-eye, and bent the sec- 0nd time over the buttoneye above the second hole made in the material, for reasons which will be fully understood after a further explanation of the manner of making the stitch. After drawing the loop a in a per- 5 pendiculardirection through the material and button-eye of the length required, as shown in Fig. 1, I then bend said loop over the button-eye about the angle shown in Fig. 2. I now force the loop a through a small hole made in the material outside of the button-eye, as shown in Fig. 3. I then carry one side of the loop a ashortdistance past the first hole made in the material, as shown in Fig. 4, after which I again seizethe loop of thread at the bent 6 portion and draw itfor the second time through the first hole made in the materialand through the button-eye, as shown in Fig. 5. I then "again bend what remains of the loop over the button-eye above the second hole made in the material, as shown in Fig. 6. I now seize the thread O,which is under the second hole made in the material. and draw. another loop, I), through said hole and continue to draw it in a perpendicular direction through the loop rt, as shown in Fig. 7. The button is now raised to an upright position and the loop Z) thrown over it, as shown in Fig. 8, after which thestitch is completed by pulling the thread 0 with sufficient force to draw all the loops and threads which compose the stitch tightly and snugly through and around the button-eye and mate rial, the appearance after the final operation being clearly represented in Figs. 9 and 10, the above-described operations being repeated 8 5 for each successive button. This stitch may be made byhand or by properly-arranged me chanical devices and movements.

Having thus fully described my method of attaching shank-buttons to boots and shoes, I 0 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The method of attaching shank-buttons to fabrics, the same consisting in first drawing a loop of thread through the fabric and button- 5 eye, then bending it over the button-eye, then forcing said loop through the fabric outside of the button-eye, then bending it beneath the fabric to a position under the button-eye, then I beneath the fabric to tighten said loops about drawing it again through the fabric and butthe button, as shown and described, for the IQ ton-eye then securing said primary loop by purpose set forth.

drawing a second loop of thread through the fabric outside of the button-eye and through ROSE hLL THOMPSON said primary loop then passing said second Witnesses: loop-overthe head of the button, and finally GEORGE W. GHAPIN, exertingsufficient strainupon theslaok thread WILLIAM F. HARDEN, Jr. 

